Andrew S. MacDougall

12.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
76 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Andrew S. MacDougall is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew S. MacDougall has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 31 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 25 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Andrew S. MacDougall's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (53 papers), Plant and animal studies (29 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (13 papers). Andrew S. MacDougall is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (53 papers), Plant and animal studies (29 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (13 papers). Andrew S. MacDougall collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Andrew S. MacDougall's co-authors include Roy Turkington, Benjamin Gilbert, Jonathan M. Levine, Kevin S. McCann, Scott D. Wilson, Gabriel Gellner, Carly D. Ziter, W. Stanley Harpole, Kévin Cazelles and Elizabeth T. Borer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Andrew S. MacDougall

73 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

ARE INVASIVE SPECIES THE DRIVERS OR PASSENGERS OF CHANGE IN DEGRADED ECOSYSTEMS?

2005 873 citations Andrew S. MacDougall, Roy Turkington Ecology profile →
Food web rewiring in a changing world

2019 242 citations Timothy Bartley, Kevin S. McCann et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Andrew S. MacDougall	2.3k	1.6k	1.3k	947	813	76	3.6k
Jane A. Catford	2.3k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	911 1.0×	940 1.2×	80	4.0k
Balázs Déak	2.0k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	842 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	924 1.1×	138	3.7k
Michael Kleyer	2.5k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	1.3k 1.6×	75	4.5k
Orsolya Valkó	2.1k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	904 0.7×	1.4k 1.4×	801 1.0×	149	3.8k
Marie‐Laure Navas	2.5k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	929 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	13	3.9k
Yann Hautier	2.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	911 1.1×	72	3.9k
Bryan L. Foster	2.4k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	998 1.1×	637 0.8×	58	3.3k
Robert Bagchi	2.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	797 0.8×	1.4k 1.8×	49	3.8k
Qinfeng Guo	3.0k 1.3×	2.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	1.3k 1.6×	170	5.0k
David E. Rothstein	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 1.1×	711 0.6×	783 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	48	3.8k

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Seabloom, Eric W., Sarah E. Hobbie, Andrew S. MacDougall, & Elizabeth T. Borer. (2025). Multidecadal persistence of soil carbon gains on retired cropland following fertilizer cessation. Nature Geoscience. 18(10). 1014–1019.

Bakker, Jonathan D., Lori Biederman, Elizabeth T. Borer, et al.. (2025). Successful Alien Plant Species Exhibit Functional Dissimilarity From Natives Under Varied Climatic Conditions but Not Under Increased Nutrient Availability. Journal of Vegetation Science. 36(2). 2 indexed citations

MacDougall, Andrew S., et al.. (2024). Facilitation against herbivory more important than resource‐based niche differences for plant coexistence in a field experiment. Journal of Ecology. 112(6). 1200–1209. 2 indexed citations

Kadoya, Taku, Karin Nilsson, Jocelyn M. Kelly, et al.. (2024). Common processes drive metacommunity structure in freshwater fish. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(5). 3 indexed citations

Esch, Ellen & Andrew S. MacDougall. (2023). Nitrogen addition enhances terrestrial phosphorous retention in grassland mesocosms. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. 1 indexed citations

Seabloom, Eric W., Maria C. Caldeira, Kendi F. Davies, et al.. (2023). Globally consistent response of plant microbiome diversity across hosts and continents to soil nutrients and herbivores. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3516–3516. 13 indexed citations

Borer, Elizabeth T., Andrew S. MacDougall, Carly Stevens, et al.. (2023). Writing a massively multi‐authored paper: Overcoming barriers to meaningful authorship for all. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(6). 1432–1442. 4 indexed citations

Rocci, Katherine S., Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, et al.. (2022). Impacts of nutrient addition on soil carbon and nitrogen stoichiometry and stability in globally-distributed grasslands. Biogeochemistry. 159(3). 353–370. 19 indexed citations

Nepel, Maximilian, Roey Angel, Elizabeth T. Borer, et al.. (2022). Global Grassland Diazotrophic Communities Are Structured by Combined Abiotic, Biotic, and Spatial Distance Factors but Resilient to Fertilization. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 821030–821030. 2 indexed citations

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MacDougall, Andrew S., Paul Caplat, Johan Olofsson, et al.. (2021). Comparison of the distribution and phenology of Arctic Mountain plants between the early 20th and 21st centuries. Global Change Biology. 27(20). 5070–5083. 12 indexed citations

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Seabloom, Eric W., Elizabeth T. Borer, Sarah E. Hobbie, & Andrew S. MacDougall. (2021). Soil nutrients increase long‐term soil carbon gains threefold on retired farmland. Global Change Biology. 27(19). 4909–4920. 36 indexed citations

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Reinhart, Kurt O., Jonathan T. Bauer, Sarah McCarthy‐Neumann, et al.. (2021). Globally, plant‐soil feedbacks are weak predictors of plant abundance. Ecology and Evolution. 11(4). 1756–1768. 28 indexed citations

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McCann, Kevin S., Kévin Cazelles, Andrew S. MacDougall, et al.. (2020). Landscape modification and nutrient‐driven instability at a distance. Ecology Letters. 24(3). 398–414. 34 indexed citations

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Esch, Ellen & Andrew S. MacDougall. (2018). More at the Margin: leveraging ecosystem services on marginal lands to improve agricultural sustainability and slow trends of farming costs outpacing yield gains. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Harvey, Éric & Andrew S. MacDougall. (2017). Non‐interacting impacts of fertilization and habitat area on plant diversity via contrasting assembly mechanisms. Diversity and Distributions. 24(4). 509–520. 10 indexed citations

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Harvey, Éric & Andrew S. MacDougall. (2015). Spatially Heterogeneous Perturbations Homogenize the Regulation of Insect Herbivores. The American Naturalist. 186(5). 623–633. 17 indexed citations

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Germain, Rachel M., Laura T. Johnson, Stefan Schneider, et al.. (2013). Spatial Variability in Plant Predation Determines the Strength of Stochastic Community Assembly. The American Naturalist. 182(2). 169–179. 47 indexed citations

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Richardson, Paul J., Andrew S. MacDougall, Amanda G. Stanley, Thomas N. Kaye, & Peter W. Dunwiddie. (2012). Inversion of plant dominance–diversity relationships along a latitudinal stress gradient. Ecology. 93(6). 1431–1438. 23 indexed citations

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MacDougall, Andrew S., et al.. (2010). Dispersal Limitation and Environmental Structure Interact to Restrict the Occupation of Optimal Habitat. The American Naturalist. 175(6). 675–686. 56 indexed citations

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MacDougall, Andrew S. & Roy Turkington. (2006). DISPERSAL, COMPETITION, AND SHIFTING PATTERNS OF DIVERSITY IN A DEGRADED OAK SAVANNA. Ecology. 87(7). 1831–1843. 34 indexed citations

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